After having collected the confidence in the Chamber , today the government of Giorgia Meloni presents itself to the Senate . In Montecitorio there were 235 votes in favor, 154 against, 5 abstentions.
At Palazzo Madama the majority can count on 112 senators, the majority is set at 101. President Ignazio La Russa opened the discussion at 1pm. Silvio Berlusconi has already announced his intention to intervene in the explanations of vote for Forza Italia .
The one presented to the House is a program that extends for 5 years in 10 points and focuses on measures against expensive gas and electricity bills and on containing gasoline increases.
Below is the live news from Palazzo Madama
Berlusconi: "A reform of justice is essential"
"Justice reform is also an indispensable priority, for a matter not only of the reasonable length of the trials and I remember that the trials for a first-degree sentence take place in Europe for 1020 days, apart from Holland, 98 days at most one year and for this reason, hearings should not be scheduled after 3-4 months but the week after or at the latest after two weeks. We must do so for a question of civilization and freedom. A truly guaranteeing reform, not against the judiciary but for the law, for the 'equity, for freedom ". Thus the senator of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi in the declaration of vote in the Chamber for trust.
The Cav has claimed its Atlanticist position in foreign policy (“We are with the West and with Kiev on the war in Ukraine”) and confirmed that Forza Italia will vote “with loyalty” on Giorgia Meloni's confidence in the government.
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Renzi: "We are on institutional reforms"
"The Action and IV group will vote no to trust the Meloni government for the reasons that the colleagues who preceded me have well argued". Matteo Renzi said this when speaking in the Senate.
The leader of IV, however, opened to a debate on institutional reforms: "If the majority wants to challenge us on the direct election of the prime minister, the one we have called the mayor of Italy, we will be there. The fundamental point is that if there is 'is an opening on constitutional reforms, a no regardless is wrong ".
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Melons: "We will raise the cash ceiling"
"I confirm that we will raise the cash ceiling", Giorgia Meloni reiterated after the criticisms of the Pd and M5S on the measure. Salvini would like to raise the ceiling to 10 thousand euros.
And he quotes the former minister of the Democratic Party Padoan: "There is no relationship between the cash ceiling and the submerged"
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Melons: "Tax wedge cut by five points"
"If we do not start with the cut of the tax wedge, wages will be low anyway and you have not made this cut. A different choice has been made that has less impact. I am committed to progressively arrive at a tax cut of five points. Two thirds. to workers, a third to companies. Of course it has a significant cost and is a medium-term commitment ". Giorgia Meloni said this in her reply to the Senate.
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Gas, Meloni: "We must extract our natural gas"
"Measures are needed in the medium-term to free Italy from an unacceptable energy dependence. I am thinking of the extraction of natural gas. I think that national resources must be used as requested by Europe. Then they extract other nations and it is nothing but foreign gas. it pollutes less ", Giorgia Meloni said on the energy issue, adding that the government" will fight speculation "on the price of gas.
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Meloni: "It is good that Italians know the conditions we inherit"
"Perhaps it is a more sincere story than what has been done in other times when people proclaimed and toasted for the abolition of poverty: it is good that Italians know the conditions we inherit". This was stated by the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in the reply to the Senate.
"All the more reason with limited resources you have to choose a path, where you want to go and then reasons on concrete measures", she added, replying to those who accused her of not having said concretely how she intends to cope with high prices and high bills. For this reason "Fdi and I have chosen never to be part of the rainbow majority, dystonic". First, he added, we need to see "where we want to go, give a vision and then let the measures fall from that vision".
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Berlusconi: "Difficult situation but convinced confidence"
"The situation is difficult but we are giving our confidence with conviction". Silvio Berlusconi said this in a conversation in the Senate with reporters and replying to those who ask him if the government is compact and if all the difficulties have been overcome.
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Cucchi: "I will not vote for trust, but take into consideration what I say about prisons"
"I will not vote for confidence. But I invite you to take my words into consideration." Ilaria Cucchi (Avs) said this in the Senate Chamber, addressing the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the discussion on trust.
Cucchi then recalled his commitment to the world of volunteering and then focused much of his speech on the theme of prisons, “where the state is all too often absent, and I use an euphemism. They are places of life and work - he continued - bent by suffering for inhuman conditions in which they are forced to survive. Agents and detainees abandoned by the state that actually prefers to wage war against each other rather than carrying out serious reforms for a just and necessary requalification of the roles and lives of all those who are forced to stay together ".
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Conte: "They want to raise the cash ceiling to 10 thousand euros, please the shoulder pads"
The government majority "wants to raise the cash ceiling to € 10,000. They are doing a favor to the shoulder straps, those who go beyond the Alps with their briefcases and take our resources to banks across the border. Thanks to the Draghi government they have abolished cashback and complete the reform against the measures we had introduced to make payments traceable ”.
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FI: "Our support will be loyal"
"Forza Italia will never fail to support the center-right government, it will do so with loyalty, dedication, serious work, implementing its fundamental values which belong to its DNA". The senator of Forza Italia Adriano Paroli said this in the classroom, speaking during the discussion on trust in the Meloni government.
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Pd: "Meloni say clear words about bills"
"Yesterday we listened to an identity and almost autobiographical speech by President Meloni. Today we expect clear words on what interests Italians, starting with the high cost of living and bills. The electoral campaign is over and the times for these fundamental interventions are very tight". This was stated by the exponent of the Democratic Party and vice president of the Senate, Anna Rossomando.
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Conte: "The government rewards tax evaders"
"For the new center-right government, the priorities are different. An example? Raising the cash ceiling to reward those who go around making payments with 10 thousand euros of banknotes in a briefcase". "A Bank of Italy study certifies that raising the cash ceiling helps tax evasion. We will strongly oppose this measure. We do not want to encourage malpractice and corruption. We are concerned instead with helping businesses, workers and families who do not know how pay the next bill ". "Those who usually don't go around with 10 thousand euros in cash in their pockets". The leader of the M5s Giuseppe Conte writes it on fb.
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Patuanelli (M5s): "How do you fight evasion and promise an amnesty?"
In the programmatic statements of Prime Minister Meloni "there are too many things not said, or said without saying and many contradictions". Stefano Patuanelli (M5s) said this in the discussion on trust in the Senate. "For example - continued the former minister - how can one stay with Orban in Europe and at the same time ask for European solidarity on the price cap". Or "how do you say you want to fight tax evasion and promise a tax amnesty?".
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Gelmini: "We will not make an ideological opposition"
"Ours will not be an ideological opposition, but on the merits. We want to make a republican opposition. There are those who want to fight on the names, we don't, we want to do it on the facts". To say this, in the Senate chamber is Maria Stella Gelmini, senator of the Third Pole, speaking on the programmatic statements of the government.
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Monti: "I abstain, Meloni must convince me"
"Madam President, I agree with many of the programmatic lines you have outlined, even if some are very different from mine. I am delighted but I need to be convinced by the facts. For this today I will abstain and I will evaluate measure by measure". This was announced in the AUla in the Senate by life senator Mario Monti in the discussion on trust in the Meloni government.
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